Xmas Day... Wot u do?

Derekftm · Post by **Derekftm** » Sat Nov 06, 2004 10:25 pm

Chill in the morn
Get to the Percy Club for 11.am (with me new jumper on

)
Go home at 2.00
Eat a big big dinner (with loads of pigs in blankets)
Go to sleep
Back to Percy Club for 7.00pm (with another new jumper

)

The Indians on Boldon Lane is open Xmas night
So walk along there
Then stagger the rest of the way home to eat me Curry

Ah! I love Xmas Day

By the way
I have no kids

RandomGoth · Post by **RandomGoth** » Sun Nov 07, 2004 12:00 am

Go to Midnight service
Sleep
Go to Morning service
come home and open prezzies with whole family, this normally takes a while due to opening one prezzie at a time rather then one big rush of everyone to open them.
Actually devote some time to worship here

My faith is important to me.
Help mom make christmas dinner
Eat christmas dinner.
Random stuff
Sleep

Yours in randomness!
RG

sherri · Post by **sherri** » Sun Nov 07, 2004 12:31 am

Cook. All the folks come over here for Xmas dinner, so I have to peel up a mountain of potatoes and pumpkin etc. We have a traditional "english" type meal with plum pudding to follow.
Pull the xmas bonbons, wear the silly hats, open the presents, then depending on the weather, sit out on the deck and have a chat.

Used to be, when my kids were young, that they would be up at the crack of dawn and into their presents. I can vividly remember my son at age 2, in nothing much except a nappy and t shirt, out riding his tricycle along the footpaths at 6.30am.
And hearing the next door neighbours outside at midnight on Xmas eve, putting the play equipment together in their back yard. While we tried to put the bikes together.

I like Xmas

Just hope it isnt a hot one as it gets hot enough cooking in the kitchen as it is.
Have not started the gift buying yet.

memor · Post by **memor** » Sun Nov 07, 2004 12:30 pm

4.30 am Wake up by rattling of empty tins on string across stairs. (Children traps)

4.31 am. Tell kiddies if they not back in bed I shoot Santas reindeers.
(usually does the trick.)

8.30am (Sensible time) Kiddies on starting blocks to see what Santa has brought them.

9.00 Myrna and I start preparing Xmas din dins

2.00 Sit down to Xmas lunch.

3.00 watch queen and listen to darling children doing washing up.

3.30 Relatives come round.

3.32 Start of Annual Xmas Argument.

3.34 Have to be prised from throat of In -Law. To sound of Kids shouting

"go on Papa bash him one"

3.40 Storm out of house for Annual cooling down walk.

4.00 Start argument again when I find nasty In -Law still there.

4.10 Placate Police when they turn up.

4.15 wave In-law bye bye as he looks out of back window of police car. After I tell police we arguing about him being on crime watch and he wanted for some heinous crime and he thinks police not got intelligence to catch him

4.20 settle down to nice Xmas films (Great escape again)

Ah well same again 2005

average len · Post by **average len** » Sun Nov 07, 2004 2:12 pm

Sit indoors cursing bloody Christmas. What a hypocritical time of year it is, everyone being nice for one day when for the other 364 they're plotting how to sink a dagger in your back.

HUMBUG!!

padlock man · Post by **padlock man** » Sun Nov 07, 2004 3:33 pm

Memor, you have surpassed yourself!! And never mind, perhaps new year will be better !

allan · Post by **allan** » Mon Nov 08, 2004 7:24 pm

Funny friends and family you got there Len, personally I like the festive season, I don't think anyone changes for one day, if you don't like anyone just avoid them, if you don't like Xmas, I can't see you liking the rest of the year.>>>>>

sherri · Post by **sherri** » Mon Nov 08, 2004 9:24 pm

Hope you have a nice day this year, rennaps.
Hard when it is the first without a close family member.
Glad to hear your mum has some arrangements made, something a bit different, as it will be hard for her too.
Each year now is special for us-sort of bitter sweet- as my parents are getting frail. Thought last Xmas might be my dad's last but with luck he might make it to 2004.

Derekftm · Post by **Derekftm** » Mon Nov 08, 2004 10:31 pm

Can feel with you there Ren
i lost my mum in July and she absolutly loved Xmas time
so i think im gonna have a bit of a hard time

Gotta try and think of the good times they had on that day tho

Hope it goes well for you

Little Lisa · Post by **Little Lisa** » Tue Nov 09, 2004 8:29 am

normaly i get up around 9:00 and open presents with family....
but this year as im over in germany with my fiance, we are going to his home place FLORIDA!!

amazing can not wait!! i will be at his parents home and planning for my wedding on the 1st of january in clearwater(florida) im so so so exicited

average len · Post by **average len** » Tue Nov 09, 2004 3:38 pm

All bloody humbug, the lot of it.

curly · Post by **curly** » Wed Nov 10, 2004 2:03 am

There's nothing better than trying to remember that Christmas is a Christian festival to celebrate the birth of Christ. All of the bad feelings that some of you get, are a result of the commercialisation and "moneymaking opportunities" presented by the period.
There is no better feeling than experiencing the joy of giving presents, to see the joy on loved one's faces as they open their gifts. This is a simple but unsurpassed joy.
Spare a thought for the homeless and lonely at this time, it will put your own dissolutionment into a sharp perspective!

However, there is nothing that naffs me off more than seeing Christmas merchandise in stores in September, and hearing Christmas music during the last week of September - there's a time and place for everything!

Call me old fashioned!

Elaine H · Post by **Elaine H** » Wed Nov 10, 2004 4:04 am

I know what you mean Curly. As with everything else, they go overboard here in the USA at Christmas. And of course, the shops start putting out their Christmas trees and decorations in September already! I am so glad that we will be spending this Christmas in Germany with the in-laws. Christmas in Germany is wonderful. Even though of course you have a lot of commercialisation there too, on the whole the weeks running up to Christmas and Christmas itself is still a very contemplative and thoughful time there .
As for what we will be doing on Christmas Day, I really don't know yet. It depends on what the in-laws have planned. Generally though, it will be just us family, Christmas dinner cooked by my mother in-law, who has to be one of the best cooks ever , and if the weather allows, then a nice walk afterwards. In Germany (well, in my husband's family anyway) presents are exchanged on Christmas Eve not on Christmas Day. The only thing that will be missing for me, will be my own parents. However, they are coming over to Florida this week to visit us and are staying until Mid-December, so at least I will get to see them close to Christmas. I wish they would consider coming over to Germany too, but after a month in Florida, they really don't want to travel again so soon. Oh well. Maybe next year!

average len · Post by **average len** » Wed Nov 10, 2004 2:18 pm

I'm surprised we're still allowed to talk about Christmas. I thought they'd have ordered us to talk about something like Winterval instead, as in the Charles D. classic A Winterval Carol.

sherri · Post by **sherri** » Wed Nov 10, 2004 2:29 pm

I nearly fell over with surprise when i saw the Xmas display out in some of the shops back in September. If they keep moving it back, we will end up with Xmas in the middle of winter!

I enjoy a bit of the christmassy stuff though. One of the BEST santa's I ever saw was up at the local shopping centre when the kids were little. At the time, the area was surrounded by farmland and santa parachuted in.
I thought they would land him on the grass but no, they roped off a section of the car park and we all watched him float in, land magnificently and get carried away into the centre where he was set up on his throne. Most exciting.It was excellent.
Mind you, it would have been pretty dreadful if poor santa had broken a leg on the way down.
All the same, the excitement of waiting and listening for that plane.....
He came the following year on a sled pulled by Husky dogs but somehow it all seemed rather tame after the parachute dive.

How do your English santas arrive? Do they just slink in, are they just magically there one day, or do they arrive in a blaze of glory.

average len · Post by **average len** » Wed Nov 10, 2004 2:34 pm

The way global warming is going, Santa will soon start arriving on a surf board, and wearing sunglasses and skin protection cream.

sherri · Post by **sherri** » Wed Nov 10, 2004 2:48 pm

nah, naps. Santa has the full red thing going in these parts. You know, the red jacket, the red suit,the red hat the red face with sweat pouring down it.

sherri · Post by **sherri** » Wed Nov 10, 2004 2:52 pm

When I was young, my dad tried to tell me that we could leave a can of beer out for santa. Of course, I knew that was wrong, so I left out some milk and a biscuit instead.

sherri · Post by **sherri** » Wed Nov 10, 2004 3:02 pm

whisky is doing it in style.
Did you hear the pernicious rumour that santa is a d*ug addict?
He travels all around the world in one night. Now that's SOME trip.

memor · Post by **memor** » Thu Nov 11, 2004 12:39 am

Sherri I bet Milk and Biscuit was left.

But Beer was drunk.......right or am I right.